Improvement in curry-combs



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eww in Letters 'Patent No. 93,732, dated August 17,1869.

IMPROVEMENTYIN cURRY-CDMBS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

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To all whom it may conce/m.- v

"Be it known that I, H. -MIT'noFmof Columbus,- iu the county of Franklin, and State of O-ho, have inf vented a new and useful Improvement in Curry- Gombs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full? clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in whichbliogure l is a back viewof my improved curryeom Figure 2 is a detail sectional view of the same', ta

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Figure 3 is a perspective View of one of the angu# Alar strips that form the body of `the curry-comb.

Figure 4 is aperspective viewof the single troughlike strip of the curry-comb body. y Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to'furnish an improved eury-coinb, simple in construction1 easily and cheaply made, and which will, at the saine time, be strong and durable; and A t l It';y consists :in constructing the body of the curry; comb of over-lapping strips, as hereinafter more fully described.

1n forming the body of the curry-comb, a single trough-like or doubleilanged strip, A, of sheet-metal, is taken, upon the projecting edges or anges of which are formedteeth.

The next strip, B, is made as shown in fig. 3; that is to say, with a `single flange, upon which the teeth are formed, and with the other edge of. its body concaved, as shown, so that its ends may be wider, to overlap the ends of the preceding strip. i

The other 'strips are all made similar to the strip B.

The strips B have flanges b formed upon their ends, of a width equal to the desired Width of' the :spaces between the flanges upon which the teeth are formed.

In putting the curry-comb together, the doubleflanged strip A is rst taken. One ofthe strips B is then placed upon it, overlapping its back; and the end anges b are bent down over its ends. strip B is then placed upon and secured tothe rst one in the. same manner, and so on, until the currycomb has beeliy made of the desired size.

The end ilan'ges bmayall be bent down by machinery ata single operation.

The body of the curry-comb is thus formed without rivets.

C, is the handle, -to the outer end of which the Wooden .handpiece D is attached, in the ordinary The inner vend of the handle G is made forked, and the ends of the forks or branches project at the ends ot' theV curry-comb, and are made thicker, -for conveziience in jarring the dust from the curry-comb, in the ordinary manner.

Having thus described my invention,

l-I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- An improved curry-comb, the 4body of which is formed by combining a number of single-flanged strips, B, with a single double-flanged strip, A, the several parts being secured together by bending fthe ilanges b' of each strip B over the ends of the preceding strip,

'substantially as herein shown and described.

H. MIlHOFF.

Witnesses H. M. KINNEY, C. HERMAX Another 

